Xiao Mu came to the courtyard and stopped behind her.

Heng Yu heard the movement, turned around and said to him: "There is a cat here just now, it seems to have run away......

"There is no shortage of shelter for them in the house, and the people will not drive them away." Xiao Mu handed the fox fur over and said, "You should care more about yourself, the cold after drinking is easy to invade the body, put it on-"

Heng Yu looked at the fox fur that was handed to him, and was stunned for a while, wanting to stand up.

However, I don't know if she has been squatting for a long time, and when the alcohol spreads, when she is about to stand up, she feels lightheaded, the snow is slippery, and she can't stand firmly, and her body leans forward as soon as she stumbles.

Seeing this, Xiao Mu wanted to help her, but for some reason, his body was still for a moment, and for a moment, she was thrown to the ground.

The two of them fell together in the snow.

Hengyu's nose slammed heavily on his shoulder, tears came out of his eyes in pain, and his mind was chaotic.

In the midst of the chaos, she heard the sound of a powerful heartbeat.

She lifted her face to look at the one that was close at hand.

Xiao Mu's expressionless face became more and more stunned at this time, and even revealed a little stiffness.

The eyes, which had always been clear and bright, but seemed to have countless secrets, were now clouded with a layer of hazy drunkenness, and they just stared at him.

At this moment, everything in the world is quiet, only the snow is still falling.

Snowflakes fell on his dark brows, and his eyelashes were stained with white mist.

Hengyu slowly stretched out his hand——

The girl's fingers were white and slender, and there was still a hint of wine on the tips of her fingertips.

As if thoughtful, she poked her finger at the slightly cool face.

“……！” Xiao Mu's eyes trembled, and when he saw that her face was closer, he could even smell the faint fragrance on her body...... Seeing that her fingers were about to move again, he hurriedly raised his hand and grabbed her wrist.

"Get up." He tried to make his tone sound calm enough.

The man who poked him in the face blinked a little dazedly, and it was obvious that he was even more drunk just by looking at it.

Xiao Mu said patiently: "Get up from this body......"

Heng Yu glanced at the snow on his bun, and then he came back to his senses, answered "yes", propped his hands in the snow, and barely got up.

She was already a little staggering, but she felt that she shouldn't be like this—she knew how much she had drunk, and she had never lost her proportions, so how could she feel as if she was going to get drunk? My brain is a little weak.

When she stood firm and tried to reach out to help the person she had knocked down, her feet hurt so much that she let out a soft "hiss".

Xiao Muzi couldn't expect her to pull herself, she had already gotten up at this time, and when she saw her half-bent down, she frowned slightly and asked, "Broken feet?" ”

"It seems to be ......"

Xiao Mu shook off the snow on the fox's fur, draped it on her, and helped her with one arm: "Go in first-"

Hengyu nodded, tiptoed his left foot, and limped towards the house with him.

When he was about to go up the stone steps, he was about to lift his feet again, when he suddenly felt that his body was light, and he was picked up horizontally.

Xiao Mu stepped over the stone steps in two steps, hugged her but was still straight, walked into the house without squinting, and put the girl who was still a little dazed into the chair and sat down.

Heng Yu stared blankly at him half-squatting and half-kneeling in front of him.

"Veil—" he said.

"Ah......?" Heng Yu's brain was dull, and it took a while to find a snow-white silk handkerchief from his sleeve and hand it to him.

He took it and took off her embroidered shoes and silk stockings, and the handkerchief cushioned her feet in his hands.

"It's going to hurt a little bit, but it's time to come back in time to recover faster."

Heng Yu didn't know if he nodded, but stared at him without blinking, as if he had forgotten how to blink.

He held her foot with one hand and placed the other on top of her ankle.

The girl's ankles were slender and white, and the corners of her lilac skirt were half-hidden, but she also allowed him to see a whitish scar on it—

The scar was an old wound, one long.

Xiao Mu paused.

At this moment, there was no more doubt in his heart.

"Master Hou, haven't we really met......" A confused voice came from above his head and asked him.

Xiao Mu didn't look up at her, and a smile gradually appeared between his slightly stunned eyebrows.

I've seen it.

- he replied from the bottom of his heart.

A "click" sounded the sound of the bone joint returning to its position, and Hengyu took a breath of cool air gently.

Xiao Mu said: "You can bear the pain very well. ”

His voice was flat, but it seemed to have a rare smile.

However, when she raised her head again, she saw that she was leaning back in the chair, her eyes had been closed, and the corners of her mouth were still moving slightly, as if she wanted to say some nonsense.

It's really drunk.

Xiao Mu was helpless, and silently put her shoes and socks back on.

Not to mention this treat, he has become her personal maid.

He got up and looked out of the room.

The snow is much lighter.

He leaned over and put the hood on for her before picking her up from the chair as politely as possible.

"So easily drunk, so guarded, and so serious—" he said to the drunken man in his arms as he descended the stone steps.

"I've drunk a lot...... "The drunken man barely came to his senses, and muttered with great dignity, "...... In the past, in Yanchun Tower, I drank with people until the fourth watch, and I never got drunk......"

"What kind of place is Yanchun Tower?"

“…… Of course, it is the largest flower building in Beijing...... The flower girls inside are all like fairies, each with their own style, and they are the seven beauties of Yanchun......"

Xiao Mu: "......"

really has a broad hobby, and has not lived up to the name of the gentleman.

"Lord Hou......"

"Hmm."

"I should, but I'm sleepy......" Her voice grew weaker and more muffled, as if she was making a final struggle.

"Well, then let's sleep in peace." Like the melting of ice and snow, his voice carried a gentle smile.

Then, he muttered to himself—

"Found you."

Yes, he had looked for it.

At first, he was unable to take care of himself, but when he arrived in the north and settled down, he would always think of that rainy night in the ruined temple.

He did not buy the jewelry she gave him, for fear of revealing her traces.

or because the two were in a similar situation when they met, as if they saw each other in each other; Or maybe for him, he had experienced a glimmer of unexpected warmth in the cold embers, whether it was from that little girl, or his small giving—

In short, that encounter always had a different meaning to him.

So, he tried to find her, wondering if she had returned home safely.

And because he later heard that Mr. Qinghan was out of Youzhou City, and his granddaughter was missing, he guessed whether the girl's surname was Ji-

He secretly investigated a lot, and after several explorations, he got a clue and found a group of human traffickers, but the information he got was that "she" had unfortunately died.

Later, he suddenly heard the news that Mr. Qinghan's exiled granddaughter had been found-

He wondered if the information he had received was wrong, that the clues were too messy, and that there were very few ways for him to use them at that time. valley

But speculation is always speculation.

It wasn't until she suddenly came to Yingzhou that this guess became clearer.

And then tonight, it was really confirmed.

Xiao Mu lowered his eyes and looked at the quiet sleeping face in his arms.

This is the little girl who cried on naan in tears, cried and shouted "Ah Weng" in her sleep, and took off her jewelry to him when she parted.

She really went home safely, and walked a very long and difficult road by herself alone—

"It's bitter."

His voice was low, and it was quickly dispersed by the night wind and scattered in the snow.

……

Is it bitter?

If she asked Hengyu, she would have to shake her head.

The same question, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess of Yongyang once asked her with distressed eyes.

She didn't say anything.

When people are in great difficulty, they only think about how to survive and save their lives, and they have no time to think about whether to be bitter or not.

When he got out of danger and returned home, he was only full of happiness, and it was too late to be happy.

So she didn't feel bitter at all.

……

This night, Hengyu slept very soundly and deeply.

I can't remember how many years I've had without such a relaxing sleep.

I didn't dream of those old things, I didn't let go of my guard, I didn't wake up in a flash.

When I woke up, the room was silent, and the sun was shining outside the window, reflecting the snow, illuminating the room even brighter.

The light fell through the bed net and on the girl's outstretched fingers.

Hengyu lay there, raised his right hand and watched quietly, and his mind flashed back to the situation where the two of them fell in the snow last night.

At that time, the two were very close, and Hou Ye's face seemed to be ......

Could it be that she was mistaken?

She was so drunk that she didn't even think about it and reached out to poke his face with her finger......

And then what happened?

Hengyu struggled to recall, moving his left foot under the quilt.

There was still pain in her ankle, reminding her that the fragmented images weren't dreams.

And the picture of Xiao Mu squatting down and kneeling to straighten her ankle for her was vaguely overlapping in her mind at this time, a scene from the past......

Hengyu's eyes widened slightly—she finally knew where the sense of déjà vu in Xiao Mu came from!

She sat up sharply.

Eight years ago...... In the ruined temple!

But according to her previous speculation, the identity of the teenager she met in the broken temple was very likely to be ......

And later, she clearly heard that the sister-in-law of the Shi family who escaped from Beijing when the family was full of people in the Shuguo Mansion had already surrendered to the law when he was about to leave the boundary of Youzhou......

In other words, the Lang Jun of the Shi family had already died on the way to escape eight years ago.

Hengyu calmed down slightly, twisted his eyebrows slightly, and his eyes were full of doubt.

"He's clearly Xiao Mu......" she whispered to herself.

It is true that there are not many similarities between the two, it is her...... Is there a delusion?

But she has never had such an illusion in her life in the matter of memory.

When Hengyu was sitting in a trance, Ji Ji walked in with light steps, and vaguely saw that the person in the bed tent was sitting, so he asked softly, "Is the girl awake?" ”

"Well, what time is it?"

"Back girl, it's almost noon." Gigi walked to the side of the bed, put away the bed net, and hung it up: "Does the girl feel a headache?" ”

Heng Yu shook his head and said with a smile: "I slept well." ”

"Marquis Xiao is really, how can he make the girl so drunk......"

Heng Yu opened his mouth when he heard this, and let out a soft "ah", but still explained for Xiao Mu: "He didn't pour me, I was drunk myself." ”

"The girl was really drunk and unconscious last night, Xiao Hou Ye carried the girl all the way back, and when she left, the girl still grabbed Hou Ye's robe and refused to let it go."

“……？” Heng Yu was amazed, was she so cheeky when she was drunk?

Thinking of the embarrassment of that picture, Heng Yu coughed lightly and diverted the topic: "It's about because people are in good spirits when they are happy, so they are easy to get drunk." ”

However, Xiao Mu was really enough to lift her up, the wine last night was light, but she didn't expect it to be so strong.

Ji Ji was stunned: "Happy...... Wedding? ”

"Yes, my Jiji is getting married, isn't it a big event?"

"Girl......" Ji Ji was a little flustered for no reason: "A maid doesn't have to be married......"

"If you haven't met the right person, you naturally don't marry, but if that person is worthy of you to marry, how can you miss it?"

Heng Yu said seriously: "Frankly speaking, I had no intention of going to the Meng family before, and I never considered this family business. But after that, what I didn't expect was that Captain Meng handled the matter very well—there was no dispute, and everyone was happy, which shows that he is calm and calm, and I can also see that even if there are pedantic and outdated thoughts in his family, he is also willing to reflect and correct, which is very rare at the moment. ”

Speaking of this, with a smile: "What's more, he's someone Gigi likes – I wrote to my family yesterday to inform me of this." ”

Hearing this, Gigi knelt down with red eyes.

"The maid has been thinking over and over again these days, no matter what the girl decides, I will listen to the girl, but I ...... I can't bear to ...... girl" The little girl lowered her head, and tears fell "clicking".

"If you don't get married, you'll never see you again."

"But the girl ......"

"There is no shortage of people around me to take care of." Hengyu cut off her words softly, and said with relief: "You shouldn't have only revolved around me all your life, but now I am very happy to see you do what you want to do and experience what you should experience." ”

She was surrounded by a brocade quilt in front of her, her black hair was draped over her shoulders, and her palm-sized face was full of smiles: "My family Jiji is so good, I will definitely be able to live a good life in the future." ”

Gigi lifted his tearful face, and between his smiling eyes, he opened his mouth and smiled like a crying smile.

The two have known each other for many years, and at this moment, there is no need to say anything else.

"Girl...... Do your feet still hurt? Ji Ji held back tears and said, "This morning, Master Hou sent someone to send a bottle of medicinal oil, and the maid will rub it for you, right?" ”

"It really hurts, so let's rub it." Hengyu shifted his body and sat on the edge of the bed.

Ji Ji responded with "yes", took the medicinal oil, stepped forward to pull up the trouser tube for the girl, poured the medicinal oil in the palm of his hand, and rubbed the wound evenly.

Heng Yu lowered his eyes and looked at the serious little girl, and his eyes were slightly red.

In addition to the Meng family's own affairs, she also considered whether the Meng family was involved with the person who killed her back then-

Cheng Ping's words gave her the answer, the Meng family was unaware, clean and simple.

So that she can nod her head reassuringly.

And now she is one step closer to the truth, and the danger is also one step closer - she took Gigi with her back then, because Gigi was helpless. Now, before the danger comes, it is really good to see that Gigi has his own "home" and can live a peaceful and peaceful life.

……

On the other side, Meng Dazhu finished his errand and hurriedly went to see his own general.

In the distance, I saw Yin Hai standing alone outside the door of the study in the cold wind.